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ID: 500115492
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115492
 
Record Type: Person
Wren, Christopher (English architect, 1632-1723)

Note: Born 20 October 1632; died 25 February 1723. Noted as an eminent English architect, he was the leader of the English Baroque School and the architect of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.

Names:
Wren, Christopher (preferred,V,index,LC)
Christopher Wren (V,display)
Wren, Sir Christopher (V)
Sir Christopher Wren (V)
Wren, Sir (V)
Wren, Christopher, Sir (V)
Wren, Christopher (Sir) (U,Dutch-P,NA)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
English

Roles:
artist (preferred)
architect
mathematician
printmaker
engraver (printmaker)
draftsman

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  East Knoyle (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
Died:  London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   England (United Kingdom) (country)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
apprentice was ....  Hawksmoor, Nicholas  in the 1680s
..........................  (English architect, 1661-1736) [500012664]
apprentice was ....  Laine, Thomas  
..........................  (British draftsman, born ca. 1652, died ca. 1683-1684) [500263810]
assisted by ....  Dickinson, William  
....................  (British architect, ca. 1671-1725) [500022602]
employee was ....  Gibbons, Grinling  
......................  (English woodcarver and sculptor, 1648-1721) [500115483]
employee was ....  Tijou, Jean  1695-1707
......................  (French metalworker, active 1689-1712 in England) [500098720]
parent of ....  Wren, Christopher, Jr.  
................  (English politician, 1675-1747) [500449439]
student of ....  Wilbraham, Elizabeth Mytton, Lady Thomas  
..................  (British architect, 1632-1705) [500283681]
worked with ....  Cleare, William  
....................  (English architect and joiner, active late 17th century) [500034353]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Wren, Christopher (I)

Biographies:
(English architect, 1632-1723) ..... [VP Preferred]
(English architect, 1632-1723) ..... [BHA]
(20.X.1632-25.II.1723; Architect, Mathematician, England) ..... [FDA]
(British architect, 1632-1723) ..... [AVERY]
(English architect and engraver; born East Knoyle (Wiltshire, England, now England, United Kingdom), 1632; died Hampton Court (England, Great Britain, now Greater London, England, United Kingdom), 1723) ..... [CCA]
(British draughtsman 1632-1723) ..... [GRLPA]
(British architect, 1632-1723) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(English architect, 1632-1723) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1632-1723) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(British architect, 1632-1723) ..... [NGA-DC]
(British architect, 1632-1723) ..... [NARA]
(English architect, 1632-1723) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Christopher Wren ........ [GRISC, VP]
..................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Sir Christopher Wren ........ [CCA]
.........................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Wren, Christopher ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA, CL-Courtauld Preferred, FDA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, NARA, NGA-US, VP Preferred]
....................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80102228
....................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................................  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
....................................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
....................................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000) Subject, 1988
....................................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Wren, Christopher, Sir ........ [AVERY Preferred]
.............................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
Wren, Christopher (Sir) ........ [RKD Preferred]
...............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 85698
Wren, Sir ........ [CL-Courtauld]
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
Wren, Sir Christopher ........ [AVERY, CCA, FDA, Grove Art Preferred]
...........................................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
...........................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
...........................................  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CCA, CL-Courtauld, FDA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, RKD, VP]
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
....................  Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects (1978)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n80102228
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Kaufmann, Architecture in the Age of Reason (1968, 1955)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n80102228
....................  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
....................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000) Subject, 1988
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 85698
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986) v.36, p.274 ff.
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q170373
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CCA, CL-Courtauld, VP]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 15 July 2002
.......... Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
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